Justin DeSanto, who spent the previous year helping Marywood
University to its first Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC)
championship and automatic NCAA Tournament berth in the past 10
years, joined the Yale women’s tennis staff in the fall of
2013.

A native of Pittston, Pa., DeSanto graduated from Wilkes
University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., with a degree in psychology and
minors in Spanish and sociology in 2012. In August of 2012 he
became the assistant coach at Marywood, located in Scranton, Pa.

In addition to capturing its first CSAC championship and
automatic NCAA Tournament berth in 10 years, Marywood finished with
a .900 win percentage in conference matches during DeSanto’s
year there. Marywood, which was ranked third in the preseason
coaches’ poll, defeated four-time reigning conference
champions Gwynedd-Mercy College to earn the title.

While at Marywood, DeSanto helped coach the CSAC Rookie of the
Year. Marywood also had four singles players and a doubles team
receive All-CSAC recognition.

DeSanto began coaching tennis at age 19 as a private instructor
at Kingston Indoor Tennis in Kingston, Pa., in the fall of 2009. He
spent four years there, working with children aged 3-18 conducting
private and group lessons as well as high school clinics. He also
coached the boys’ team at Wyoming Area High School from
January of 2010 through July of 2012. He brought that team -- which
was 0-36 in the three seasons prior to his arrival -- to a
respectable 8-5 record in his final year.

DeSanto spent most of the summer of 2013 coaching at a Wilson
tennis camp at the University of North Florida. There, he worked
with children aged 8-18 and had the opportunity to learn from and
coach alongside former ATP world No. 4 Todd Martin and the
assistant coach of the Notre Dame men’s tennis team, Adam
Schaechterle.